aporofobia

Borrowed from Spanish aporofobia.

• IPA^(key): /apoɾofobia/ [a.po.ɾo.fo.β̞i.a]
• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: a‧po‧ro‧fo‧bi‧a

aporofobia inan

1. (rare) aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)

From Spanish aporofobia.

aporofobia f (uncountable)

1. aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)

• “aporofobia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

From Spanish aporofobia.

aporofobia f (uncountable)

1. aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)

• “aporofobia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “aporofobia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “aporofobia”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026
• “aporofobia”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2026

From Ancient Greek ἄπορος (áporos, “indigent, poor”) + -fobia. Term coined by the Spanish philosopher Adela Cortina in the 1990s.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /apoɾoˈfobja/ [a.po.ɾoˈfo.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -obja
• Syllabification: a‧po‧ro‧fo‧bia

aporofobia f (uncountable)

1. (rare) aporophobia (hatred of poverty or poor people)
   • 2003, Luis Enrique Gamboa Umaña, Los retos de la ciudadanía y de la gobernabilidad en la globalización:

     Y se puede coincidir con Cortina en que el gran obstáculo para el tema de la ciudadanía lo constituyen los pobres, en realidad, la aporofobia: el odio al pobre, al débil, al menesteroso.

     And with Cortina it can be agreed that the great obstacle to the matter of citizenship is the poor, though in reality, aporophobia: hatred of the poor, the weak, the needy.

• “aporofobia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025